Motivational Quotes

Wealth

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

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Best Quotes about Wealth

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

Rockefeller, John D.

Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.

Melbourne, Lord

The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.

Budgell, Eustace

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. [Matthew 6:20]

Bible

There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.

Mizner, Wilson

Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

Oprah Winfrey

You may have tangible wealth untold, caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you could never be; I know someone who told stories to me.

Maus, Cynthia Pearl

The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away unwept, unhonored, and unsung, no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor.

Carnegie, Andrew

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

Ovid

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Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

Wilde, Oscar

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The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Carnegie, Andrew

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What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

Defoe, Daniel

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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Rex Stout

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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Seneca

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This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Peguy, Charles

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The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

Bogart, Humphrey

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Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]

Bible

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Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.

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A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny.

Proverb, Yiddish

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The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.

Bible

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Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

Wicker, John

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Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Rodman, Frances

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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Bacon, Francis

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What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Socrates

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What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

Ruskin, John

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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

Cocteau, Jean

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You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

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Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

Young, Andrew

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Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

O'Casey, Sean

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It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

Billings, Josh

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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.

Didion, Joan

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A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.

Proverb, Spanish

43.

For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.

Butler, Samuel

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Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married

Wall Street Journal

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I've been more bossed by my fortune than it has been bossed by me.

Lippett, John P.

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Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration.

Rohn, Jim

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The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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How much money is enough?